Constantly focusing on what’s wrong with the world, instead of spending our energy on developing solutions is counterproductive (this site isn’t called The Cool “Aid” for nothin’), but sometimes you just can’t turn a blind eye to the obvious.
Yesterday, Huff Post compiled a baffling list of the “The World’s Most Bizarre Man-Made Disasters,” that’ll make you wanna slap your forehead. From a hot pool of sulfuric mud that’s expected to gush for another 30 years, to entire towns condemned thanks to toxic water, strip mining, and radioactive explosions. Each of these locations represent the extreme consequences of drilling, mining, and wasting, but like those Russian dolls, this complex issue has so many layers. There are other places just like these across the globe that go undocumented and unseen–they may not be considered the Most Bizarre, but they’re harmful nonetheless. Who knows that effect the current oil spill in the Gulf will have on the region, but maybe this time we’ll wise up?
In the desert in Turkmenistan is a hole 328 ft. wide that has been on fire, continuously, for 38 years. In 1971, a Soviet drilling rig accidentally punched into a massive underground natural gas cavern, causing the ground to collapse and the entire drilling rig to fall in. Poisonous fumes began leaking from the hole. To head off a potential deadly catastrophe, the Soviets set the hole aflame.
See the rest of the list here.
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